Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, witnesses say
Emergency Lawyers said the strike killed more than 100 people and wounded 113, as witnesses reported civilians among the dead.
- On Monday, a Sudanese military drone strike hit a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, killing more than 100 people and wounding 113, reported Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence.
- The conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, ongoing since April 2023, has killed at least 59,000 people and displaced around 13 million, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
- At its Nyala hospital, Doctors Without Borders reported 36 bodies arrived Tuesday and staff treated 150 wounded, as witnesses noted fighters often congregate where civilians sell food to earn income.
- Citing difficulties verifying information amid active military operations, the Sudan Doctors Network reported at least 21 people were killed and more than 40 wounded, offering a lower toll than Emergency Lawyers.
- Child malnutrition rates in RSF-controlled Nyala doubled to 11% earlier this month, the United Nations reported, as drone warfare remains the deadliest threat to civilians in Sudan.
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Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, wit
SHENDI, Sudan (AP) — Multiple civilian vendors were among the dozens reportedly killed in an attack on a market earlier this week in a poverty-stricken Darfur city in southwestern Sudan , where they had gathered to sell
Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, witnesses say
Witnesses in Sudan say that multiple civilian vendors are among the dozens reportedly killed in an attack on a market earlier this week in a poverty-stricken Darfur city in southwestern Sudan
A drone strike by the Sudanese armed forces on a market in the Darfur region on Monday, 26 October, killed 102 civilians and injured 113, according to the latest report from the human rights group Emergency Lawyers. This attack is part of an intensified bombing of the regular army aimed at weakening the rapid support forces' paramilitaries in their main bastion.
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